VIP at Georgia Tech

We'd like to congratulate Stephanie Boulard on her research with Haikubox, which is a tool/app for recording birdsongs and identifying the species present. Students will be able to analyze bird call patterns and use this to study local ecosystems. She also leads a VIP team "Birds in Arts and Media" where students explore the role of birds in French and Francophone arts while addressing global issues like climate change through creativity and research projects.

Link to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKr4iFMT7I4

Link to the VIP Team:
https://vip.gatech.edu/teams/vwx

We'd like to congratulate the Georgia Tech EcoCAR for placing second in Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions (AVTCs) EcoCAR EV Challenge! "I wanted to learn all I could about automotives, design and manufacturing, which I knew I would likely not learn in the classroom. What I found, though, is a tight-knit community of individuals highly motivated to work toward the same goal." says Mason Shackelford. As a part of the VIP Program, the EcoCAR team offers students like Mason the chance to gain hands-on experience in cutting-edge engineering, all while being part of a diverse, multidisciplinary team.
Link to the full article:
https://www.me.gatech.edu/news/georgia-tech-takes-second-place-year-two-ecocar-ev-challenge?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Full%20Story%0A&utm_campaign=Daily%20Digest%20-%20July%2022%2C%202024

The new VIP team "Flow Dynamics of Soft Robotic Swimmers" is aiming to advance the understanding of bio-inspired robotics by integrating biological principles into the design of soft-material robotic swimmers. By studying the fluid mechanics around these robots, the team will optimize propulsion efficiency and develop innovative applications in environmental sensing and biomedical fields. This interdisciplinary project fosters collaboration between engineering, material science, and biology to create sustainable and resilient solutions.
Link to the VIP list:
https://vip.gatech.edu/teams/vyo

The new VIP team "Nature Inspired Engineering" is aiming to provide students with an overall understanding of the principles and methods of nature-inspired engineering! By studying nature's solutions for thermal regulation, pe*******on, separation, and breakdown, students will develop innovative, sustainable, and resilient infrastructures. They will explore how plants and animals pe*****te soils and rocks, develop new subsurface drilling technologies, and investigate natural strategies for redistributing and processing liquids and solids. This hands-on approach promotes critical thinking, engineering judgment, and creative problem-solving.
The link to the VIP list:
https://vip.gatech.edu/teams/vyw

The Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business has launched the Law, Data, and Design Lab, led by Professor Charlotte Alexander. The lab aims to enhance fairness, efficiency, transparency, and access to justice in legal systems using computer and data science, operations management, public policy, and design. Recent projects include AI-generated plain language legal summaries, eviction prediction models, and court schedule optimization. The lab collaborates with courts and government agencies, involving students through the VIP program, and impacts both U.S. and global legal systems.

Link to the full article: https://www.scheller.gatech.edu/news/2024/new-law-data-and-design-lab-uses-innovation-to-increase-justice-system-access-efficiency-and-fairness.html

We'd like to recognize Daniel Molzahn on his Outstanding Teacher Award - Early Career. He leads a 30-student Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) team, Gaming for Electric Power Grids, that develops video game simulations of power grids operating during extreme events. In addition to his existing research on energy systems, Professor Molzahn is dedicated to educating the next generation of electric power engineers. A first iteration of the game is currently installed at the Georgia Tech Dataseum in the Price Gilbert Library, and plans are underway to incorporate a version into next year’s Seth Bonder high school summer camps. Link to the full article: https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2024/05/college-recognizes-8-faculty-2024-excellence-awards -teacher-award-early-career

Georgia Tech's new GROWER VIP is creating the country's most comprehensive real-time power outage tracker for research use! The database will help researchers explore questions about the causes and effects of power outages and how policy interventions can help strengthen grid resilience. The database will also help researchers learn more about the causes of outages and their societal impacts, such as on housing prices, business activity, public health, and crime. It will also help them obtain greater insight into which communities experience the most frequent and longest outages and what can be done to help. Link to the full article: https://www.gatech.edu/news/2024/06/03/vip-tackles-grid-resilience-real-time-power-outage-tracker

The Popsign: Sign Language Learning Games team aims to develop technologies, including games and toolkits, to help deaf children and their parents learn American Sign Language (ASL). They innovate by creating a framework for sign language input in mobile apps and games, using ASL datasets to develop Sign Language Recognition (SLR) systems for diverse learning contexts.
College of Computing at Georgia Tech

If you missed Exascale Computational Fluid Dynamics and our other teams at VIP Rush on Tuesday, don't worry!
Check out www.vip.gatech.edu/teams to learn more about our teams.

If you missed Law, Data & Design Lab and our other teams at VIP Rush on Tuesday, don't worry!
Check out www.vip.gatech.edu/teams to learn more about our teams.

If you missed WELab and our other teams at VIP Rush on Tuesday, don't worry!
Check out www.vip.gatech.edu/teams to learn more about our teams.

Join us for VIP Rush in Klaus Atrium from 4-5 pm on Tuesday, April 16th to learn more about the following teams:
▪️ Industry Innovation: Circular Economy
▪️ Health Care Consolidation Project
▪️ Law, Data, and Design Lab
▪️ BrainBoost
▪️ Chip Scale Power and Energy
▪️ CineInnovate
▪️ GROWER
▪️ Electronic ARTrium
▪️ Configurable Computing and Embedded Systems
▪️ Graphic Medicine
▪️ Big Data and Quantum Mechanics
▪️ Empathy Bytes
▪️ Flow Dynamics of Soft Robotic Swimmers
▪️ Exascale Computational Fluid Dynamics
▪️ WELab
For information on other teams, check out www.vip.gatech.edu/teams.

Join us for VIP Rush in Klaus Atrium from 4-5 pm on Tuesday, April 16th to learn more about the following teams:
▪️ Industry Innovation: Circular Economy
▪️ Health Care Consolidation Project
▪️ Law, Data, and Design Lab
▪️ BrainBoost
▪️ Chip Scale Power and Energy
▪️ CineInnovate
▪️ GROWER
▪️ Electronic ARTrium
▪️ Configurable Computing and Embedded Systems
▪️ Graphic Medicine
▪️ Big Data and Quantum Mechanics
▪️ Empathy Bytes
▪️ Flow Dynamics of Soft Robotic Swimmers
▪️ Exascale Computational Fluid Dynamics
▪️ WELab
For information on other teams, check out www.vip.gatech.edu/teams.

We'd like to recognize Matthew Woodward as an Outstanding Mentor. Matthew said the following about their VIP experience: For me VIP is a place for students to get experience working with real-world projects instead of just theory. Additionally, it is a great opportunity to learn technical skills from older students when they first join and to practice teaching and other leadership skills once they have become the mentors.

We'd like to recognize Noemi Carillo as an Outstanding Mentor. Noemi said the following about their VIP experience: VIPs have meant an opportunity to connect with people from different majors, something I'm incredibly grateful for as I've gotten new perspectives of how to work in groups and what people are interested in and why. Also, because my VIP is focused on equity and the built environment, my perspective of what sustainability means to them has grown. I've also had an opportunity to work with communities that I would've never had the chance to work with outside of my VIP and for that I am incredibly grateful. Community engagement is an incredibly important part of policy work and city planning but does not get sufficient attention in undergraduate studies, so this VIP provided a way for me, an undergraduate public policy major and a sustainable cities minor, to gain that experience.

We'd like to recognize Gregory Lanier as an Outstanding Mentor. Gregory said the following about their VIP experience: VIP is a program that has given me opportunities to have a clear path forward in both my academics and career. As a first-generation university student and someone who transferred into GT, I was looking for ways to get deeper into the academic community past just my classes. Through VIP, I found a project where I could dial in the skills and knowledge that really interested me. This opened routes to a future career I would have never had (or even considered) without the program and has allowed me to exceed expectations in the internships I’ve had since joining.

We'd like to recognize Roy Gabriel as an Outstanding Mentor. Roy said the following about their VIP experience: Over the last 4.5 years, this VIP has served over 300 students with diverse backgrounds and origins. I have also played a significant role in forming a hierarchical structure to train new mentors and supervise them to ensure all students receive the attention they need. This experience has fostered my growth as a leader, mentor, and, above all, has bolstered my character. I look forward to future years as I continue to inspire future leaders and entrepreneurs in the fields of AI in medical imaging and finance.

We'd like to recognize Rachel Paul as an Outstanding Mentor. Rachel said the following about their VIP experience: VIP has been both personally and professionally rewarding. Having a long history of tutoring, I love to teach and mentor students, and switching from tutoring over to a TA in a VIP setting has been very challenging and rewarding. I've learned many new skills, both in mentoring and technical, and have gotten to watch my students grow and accomplish so much. I'm so proud of the work they have accomplished and all they have learned.

Showcasing the from that have been selected to participate in the GA VIP Innovation Competition. Today we're featuring the Biomedical Systems for Vascular Health team with their project: Minimally Invasive In-Stent Restenosis. The team is developing a method to detect in-stent restenosis using capacitive pressure sensors and novel stent designs with future plans for mechanical design fabrication and testing. Good luck to the Biomedical Systems for Vascular Health team and the rest of the GT teams participating!

This week we're showcasing the from that have been selected to participate in the GA VIP Innovation Competition. Today we're featuring the Brain Trauma Assessment Protocols team with their project: Cognitive Load. The team created a wearable stress monitor with homemade EEG and heart rate sensors, a machine learning model, and an Azure website to predict cognitive load in brain trauma patients for enhanced mental health care. Good luck to the Brain Trauma Assessment Protocols team and the rest of the GT teams participating!

College of Engineering at Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

This week we're showcasing the from that have been selected to participate in the GA VIP Innovation Competition. Today we're featuring the Automative LIDAR project team. The team is creating a compact vehicular LiDAR design for full automotive implementation to increase vehicle safety by detecting entities within its scope and reducing accidents. Good luck to the Automotive LIDAR team and the rest of the GT teams participating!

College of Engineering at Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business
College of Computing at Georgia Tech

This week we're showcasing the from that have been selected to participate in the GA VIP Innovation Competition. Today we're featuring the Smart and Connected Bioelectronics team with their project: Development of wearable sweat monitoring system for Cystic Fibrosis pre-screening. The team is creating a micro-channel-based wearable sweat monitoring system for rapid and non-invasive cystic fibrosis diagnosis, with the goal of improving accuracy and speed in patient care. Good luck to the Smart and Connected Bioelectronics team and the rest of the GT teams participating!

College of Engineering at Georgia Tech

This week we're showcasing the from that have been selected to participate in the GA VIP Innovation Competition. Today we're featuring the Chemical Equity team with their project: Modeling Chemical Exposure in the Workplace. The team is creating a model for chemical exposure in confined spaces using OpenFOAM software and integrating it into an app to inform users of their exposure levels over time. Good luck to the Chemical Equity team and the rest of the GT teams participating!

Georgia Tech College of Sciences
College of Computing at Georgia Tech
College of Engineering at Georgia Tech
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech

Simon Sponberg, advisor of the Living Dynamical Systems VIP team, was featured in the article "How Insects Evolved to Ultrafast Flight (And Back)" for developing models and collaborating with researchers in physics, evolutionary biology, and robotics to understand the evolution of insect flight over millions of years.
Georgia Tech College of Sciences
College of Engineering at Georgia Tech

Read more: https://loom.ly/FvLng0s

Enter the VIP t-shirt design contest for a chance to have your artwork worn all over campus! Scan the QR code to submit your designs by March 15th.

Applications for the 2024 Georgia VIP Innovation competition have been extended to February 26th!

The HipHop2020 Innovation Archive, CinéInnovate Studios, and Art & AI teams explored visual storytelling. The "Tech-Infused Tales: Exploring Visual Storytelling" article, highlights the transformative impact of technology on making storytelling more accessible and impactful.

Read more: https://iac.gatech.edu/featured-news/2024/01/visual-storytelling

Gil Weinberg, advisor of the Robotic Musicianship team, directed the medusai project which explores the boundaries of human-robot interaction, pushing the limits of technology to create a novel and unsettling yet moving musical experience. The medusai collaborates with human musicians, dancers, and observers, responding to their actions through snake-like gestures, music, and light.
Georgia Tech School of Music